"By building two relatively small devices that act as "holographic interferometers" to measure the shaking or vibration in split beams of light traveling through a vacuum." is not a sentence. What will be achieved by doing this?
I can only assume that you've not actually used Windows 7, or at least not for long enough to actually be in a position to form an informed opinion.
I have XP Pro on my PC at work, XP Home on my laptop and Windows 7 Home Premium on my desktop at home, and use a variety of flavours of Windows Server at work (and of course a variety of Linux distributions), and of the Windows versions I far prefer 7.
Where are you getting your "40 to 60GB" figure from? MS quote 20GB for 64bit Windows 7. In any case hard drive space is cheap as chips - I upgraded my home PC 2 years ago and spent around £60 on a 500GB drive. Even assuming 50GB is required, that cost me £6; I often spend more than that on lunch.
Here in the UK my boss has apparently been quoted £1000 for a Dell PC of similar spec to the one under my desk right now - dual core, 4GB RAM, SATA hard drive.
Dell really is that expensive, at least to businesses.
And that's quicker, easier, cheaper, more permanent and less likely to be protested against (in the media I mean) than just photographing/filming the protesters how?
There are a number of reasons why I have an HTC Desire rather than an iPhone. One, though by no means the most important, is that at the time that I was ready to get a new phone, I knew that a new version of the iPhone would be out "at some point in the next few months or so, but no one has a definite release date". Or, I could go with the "due to be released at the end of next week" Desire.
(More important were not having to use iTunes, ability to use the phone as a USB mass storage device, and being able to develop for it without having to buy a Mac, should I so wish, but device availability was a factor)
How long does the battery last? How many exam rooms do you think you'll be allowed to take your wireless device (complete with browser) into? Or a machine into that's capable of storing and displaying an essentially arbitrary number of ebooks, text documents, etc? Or running custom-written software specific to solving the sorts of problems you're going to be tested on?
I'm all for high-tech, highly-capable machines, but their lower-tech, less-capable (but still capable) brethren have a place too.
As for the cost, go look at the prices of computer components; just because "good" costs $X, doesn't mean "mediocre" is free.
I bet Google would at least make sure who the "infringing" material belonged to.
Why would they do that? More importantly, how would they do that? Email the site admin and ask nicely?
I really don't see that that's something that Google would want to get involved with. Something that we would want them to do, yes, but it's really not their problem or their area of expertise either.
Almost half of all users never use special characters (e.g. ! ? & #) in their passwords, a simple technique that makes it more difficult for criminals to guess passwords.
A surprising number of websites do not allow such characters in their passwords.
If memory serves, MS was sued by Sun for breaching the terms of the Java licence by putting its own (MS JVM-specific) classes in the java.* package hierarchy, rather than in a com.microsoft.* one.
At a certain time, people wondered why IBM let the SUN be bought by Oracle: it would have been a more natural choice given that IBM is so much into Java.
Oracle is also heavily into Java though - they bought BEA to get WebLogic, huge chunks of their Fusion middleware stack is written in Java, etc.
Not to mention that he includes in that "idiots" label people who don't have an Internet connection and so cannot download the update.
Too many people on here consider anyone who is not familiar with their own chosen area of expertise to be an idiot, while conveniently ignoring the huge gaps in their own knowledge.
I once worked on a site that had terms and conditions that explicitly denied the right to cache the content of the site, including in caching proxies and on your hard drive. It's like they wanted to pay for as much bandwidth as they could.
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"By building two relatively small devices that act as "holographic interferometers" to measure the shaking or vibration in split beams of light traveling through a vacuum." is not a sentence. What will be achieved by doing this?
I can only assume that you've not actually used Windows 7, or at least not for long enough to actually be in a position to form an informed opinion.
I have XP Pro on my PC at work, XP Home on my laptop and Windows 7 Home Premium on my desktop at home, and use a variety of flavours of Windows Server at work (and of course a variety of Linux distributions), and of the Windows versions I far prefer 7.
Where are you getting your "40 to 60GB" figure from? MS quote 20GB for 64bit Windows 7. In any case hard drive space is cheap as chips - I upgraded my home PC 2 years ago and spent around £60 on a 500GB drive. Even assuming 50GB is required, that cost me £6; I often spend more than that on lunch.
Here in the UK my boss has apparently been quoted £1000 for a Dell PC of similar spec to the one under my desk right now - dual core, 4GB RAM, SATA hard drive.
Dell really is that expensive, at least to businesses.
Ok samzenpus, what did MS do to you this time?
Seriously, three stories in a row? Were they all really the best of the bunch in the submission queue?
And that's quicker, easier, cheaper, more permanent and less likely to be protested against (in the media I mean) than just photographing/filming the protesters how?
There are a number of reasons why I have an HTC Desire rather than an iPhone. One, though by no means the most important, is that at the time that I was ready to get a new phone, I knew that a new version of the iPhone would be out "at some point in the next few months or so, but no one has a definite release date". Or, I could go with the "due to be released at the end of next week" Desire.
(More important were not having to use iTunes, ability to use the phone as a USB mass storage device, and being able to develop for it without having to buy a Mac, should I so wish, but device availability was a factor)
Now you have 600+ mhz and a 4" color touchscreen
How long does the battery last? How many exam rooms do you think you'll be allowed to take your wireless device (complete with browser) into? Or a machine into that's capable of storing and displaying an essentially arbitrary number of ebooks, text documents, etc? Or running custom-written software specific to solving the sorts of problems you're going to be tested on?
I'm all for high-tech, highly-capable machines, but their lower-tech, less-capable (but still capable) brethren have a place too.
As for the cost, go look at the prices of computer components; just because "good" costs $X, doesn't mean "mediocre" is free.
I bet Google would at least make sure who the "infringing" material belonged to.
Why would they do that? More importantly, how would they do that? Email the site admin and ask nicely?
I really don't see that that's something that Google would want to get involved with. Something that we would want them to do, yes, but it's really not their problem or their area of expertise either.
Almost half of all users never use special characters (e.g. ! ? & #) in their passwords, a simple technique that makes it more difficult for criminals to guess passwords.
A surprising number of websites do not allow such characters in their passwords.
Yours or hers? ;)
If memory serves, MS was sued by Sun for breaching the terms of the Java licence by putting its own (MS JVM-specific) classes in the java.* package hierarchy, rather than in a com.microsoft.* one.
At a certain time, people wondered why IBM let the SUN be bought by Oracle: it would have been a more natural choice given that IBM is so much into Java.
Oracle is also heavily into Java though - they bought BEA to get WebLogic, huge chunks of their Fusion middleware stack is written in Java, etc.
so watt is all of the fuss about?
Ba-dum tish.
Genuine question - if people honestly don't care, then is it really a problem?
For returning their property to them? Maybe, but I get the feeling that the press would have a field day with that.
The two are not mutually exclusive.
Facebook knows what other sites I visit, and what I'm buying on Amazon? Who knew.
Really every application leaks memory.
Unless you and I have very different definitions of "leaks memory" this simply is not true.
Installing a different OS on my PC doesn't void its warranty
No it doesn't, but good luck getting support from Dell, HP, etc if you wipe Windows and install Linux.
Actually in this sense, transmit is correct. As a physics grad I would certainly never use conduct for anything other than heat or electricity.
Not to mention that he includes in that "idiots" label people who don't have an Internet connection and so cannot download the update.
Too many people on here consider anyone who is not familiar with their own chosen area of expertise to be an idiot, while conveniently ignoring the huge gaps in their own knowledge.
by your UID I can imagine that you're in the US
Well I can't comment for him, but I have a significantly lower UID and I've never even been to the US.
There is a difference between "actively attempts to prevent" and "does not provide the means to".
I once worked on a site that had terms and conditions that explicitly denied the right to cache the content of the site, including in caching proxies and on your hard drive. It's like they wanted to pay for as much bandwidth as they could.
Which is exactly why they need their parent to do it for them...